Obesity and Asthma Morbidity in a Community-Based Adult Cohort in a Large Urban Area: The Chicago Initiative to Raise Asthma Health Equity (CHIRAH)

Abstract

In a community-based sample of urban asthmatic adults, obesity was related to worse asthma-specific quality of life and increased ED/urgent care utilization. However, compared to other variables measured such as depression, the contribution of obesity to lower AQLQ scores was relatively modest.